Robotics competition We watched robots designed by high school teams from all around the country compete with each other, at the FIRST Robotics competition. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The setup. It looked like the object was to knock the stacks of plastic bins over, and push them into your opponents territory. |   In action |   Prepping for another match |   Referees conferring over a close call |   An additional object of the competition was for the robots to end up in the white area in the middle, and not allow other robots to get there. | A close-up of some of the robots. |     We did a geocache (first in about 4 months) at the University of Washington afterwards. It was a wetlands area we'd never been to before. | Contents of the geocache |  Babysitting for Steve and Ilana on Sunday. Eric is holding Marina, and I'm holding Benjamin. | | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||